Rupert Murdoch

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Ann Lesley Smith

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Rupert Murdoch to marry for fifth time at 92: 'I knew this would be my ... (The Guardian)

Billionaire mogul will marry Ann Lesley Smith, 66, whom he met in September of 2022. 'We share the same beliefs,' Smith says.

But he denied that Fox News itself had endorsed the narrative. A lot of people haven’t gone through a lot, and they pontificate on stuff they’ve read in a book.” A trial is scheduled to start on 17 April in Delaware. The pair met when she was working as a prison chaplain. Smith told the New York Post: “I’m a widow 14 years. “We’re both looking forward to spending the second half of our lives together,” Murdoch said.

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Rupert Murdoch is engaged to marry Ann Lesley Smith (CNN)

Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch is preparing to walk down the aisle for the fifth time.

They divorced in August last year. In 2016, he married his fourth wife, former model Jerry Hall, at St. “I was very nervous,” Murdoch said of their whirlwind romance. “I dreaded falling in love – but I knew this would be my last. Smith was previously married to Chester Smith, a country singer and radio and TV executive, who died in 2008. “We’re both looking forward to spending the second half of our lives together,” Murdoch said.

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Rupert Murdoch engaged to be married for fifth time (Financial Times)

Ownership of Murdoch family trust expected to be unaffected by union with widow of former radio and TV executive.

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Rupert Murdoch set to marry for fifth time at 92 (BBC News)

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has announced his engagement to his partner Ann Lesley Smith, a former police chaplain. Mr Murdoch, 92, and Ms Smith, 66, ...

"I'm a widow of 14 years. I'm happy." [The businessman told the New York Post](https://nypost.com/2023/03/20/rupert-murdoch-engaged-to-ann-lesley-smith/), one of his own publications: "I dreaded falling in love - but I knew this would be my last.

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Rupert Murdoch engaged (Crow River Media)

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has got engaged to Ann Lesley Smith after six months of dating.

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Rupert Murdoch, 92, engaged to be married for fifth time (1 News)

Fox Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch is engaged to former San Francisco police chaplain Ann Lesley Smith, his spokesperson has confirmed, which will mark the ...

I'm happy," Murdoch told the Post. "I was very nervous. Murdoch and Smith, 66, first met in September at his vineyard Moraga in Bel Air, California, and he called her two weeks later, Murdoch told the News Corp-owned New York Post, which broke the news of the engagement.

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Rupert Murdoch to marry for fifth time at 92 (ABC News)

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has announced he is engaged to his partner Ann Lesley Smith, a former police chaplain.

"I was very nervous. The pair met at an event at his vineyard in California in September. - The pair met at an event at his vineyard in California in September

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Rupert Murdoch: Umuherwe w'imyaka 92 ufite ibinyamakuru ... (BBC News)

Murdoch w'imyaka 92, na Smith w'imyaka 66, bahuye muri Nzeri ishize ahantu akorera ubuhinzi bw'imizabibu, nyuma y'uko Murdoch atanye n'uwari umugore we.

Murdoch yabwiye ikinyamakuru New York Post, kimwe mu bye, ati: “Natekerezaga urukundo – ariko mbizi ko ruzaba ari rwo rwa nyuma. Murdoch yatangaje ko yasabye Ann Lesley kuzamubera umugore ku munsi wa Mutagatifu Patrick, yongeraho ko icyo gikorwa “cyanteye igihunga”. Byaba byiza ari rwo.

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Rupert Murdoch fiancée: Media tycoon dey set to marry im fifth wife ... (BBC News)

Di billionaire tycoon announce im engagement to former police chaplain, Ann Lesley Smith.

"I be widow of 14 years. [ businessman tell di New York Post](https://nypost.com/2023/03/20/rupert-murdoch-engaged-to-ann-lesley-smith/), one of im own publications say: "I no look forward to falling in love - but I know say dis one go be my last. I dey happy."

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Rupert Murdoch, 92, will wed for a fifth time after proposing to Ann ... (Tatler)

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, 92, hasn't given up on love. He proposed to girlfriend Smith, 66, on St Patrick's Day.

[finalised their divorce](https://www.tatler.com/article/rupert-murdoch-jerry-hall-finalise-divorce) in August 2022, a month before he met Smith and a year after they were last seen together in public. It marked the fourth marriage for Murdoch, but the first for Hall (she had a Hindu wedding ceremony in Bali with her former partner, Mick Jagger, in 1990, but the ‘marriage’ was later declared invalid under both Indonesian and English law). [Paparazzi snaps, Rupert Murdoch and how a public showmance could pave the perfect path for a billionaire comeback](/article/rupert-murdoch-ann-lesley-smith-paparazzi-showmance) Murdoch, a father-of-six, met Smith, a former police chaplain and the widow of late country music singer Chester Smith, at his vineyard in Bel Air, California, last September. The billionaire media mogul added he was ‘nervous’ and is confident this marriage will be his ‘last’. After four divorces, many would have given up on the promise of marriage.

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At “Succession” Party, the Talk is Rupert Murdoch's Engagement (The New York Times)

A group of actors, mostly in blue suits, pose for photos in front of. At the “Succession” premiere party, from left: Kieran Culkin, Alan Ruck, Brian Cox, ...

Murdoch said, “I dreaded falling in love — but I knew this would be my last.” He added: “We’re both looking forward to spending the second half of our lives together.” “Get it in writing.” “That old dog!” she said. “He’s this ruthless, really selfish person with a voracious appetite for life and a voracious appetite for riches and everything that goes with it,” she said of the Waystar Royco executive. “We’ve been such a happy gang,” he said. “That is bananas,” she said. “It’s all planned — nothing is off the cuff,” he said. “Run?” she suggested. - The Secret Sauce: What makes “Succession” so compelling? Murdoch has “always been a player,” said Nicholas Braun, whose character Greg stammers on the outskirts of the Roy family. (Lest there be any doubts, the series grew out of a screenplay entitled “Murdoch.”) “I hope he’s found the best love yet.”

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